Quoted by JF-AMD
Yes, back in august there were all kinds of benchmarks on "final" silicon. I could not mention that we had not reached production silicon either.
The funniest thing is that I could give 2 people (an intel fanboy and an amd fanboy) the exact same piece of silicon and both could give you different benchmark results. Why would anyone assume that all of these fake benchmarks, if they were real, were actually on an optimized system? Couldn't you run a 4200RPM HD, 800MHz memory, and play all kinds of BIOS tricks? I know that I could probably get about 80% of the optimizations done to get the best performance out of a platform, but I know I could do 100% of the things that would sabotage performance. If you think about it, AMD is not releasing info, so the stuff that is floating around (if it is even real) is probably from people not friendly to AMD. And somehow everyone is trusting those results. Nobody ever questions the motives of the people supplying this info, but to be fair, because it is third or fourth hand (some guy I know who has a friend who has an uncle that knows a guy in...) how can anyone vouch for the results.
I can't speak for anyone else around here, but I sure am upset that AMD can't even tell us when the NDA lifts. What financial damage is going to happen from releasing such a date? The NDA is under NDA, what a crock of. Share a little information with your "loyal" customers for once. I would understand if you had no idea when you were going to release the product, but you must have a concrete date by now for BD's release.
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